curbed

Surely the unruly use of antibiotics in animal feed can and must be curbed.

At the end, those very forces whose influence he thought would be curbed had claimed his life.

The ISI wants U.S. intelligence operations in the country curbed and under its full control as the price for letting Davis go.

He rained smashing blows upon him with a furious frenzy that would not be curbed.

It was with difficulty that he had curbed his impatience until the obscurity of night should render his moving free from danger.

Stover was tempted to let his imagination run, but the thought of the afternoon curbed it.

Curses trembled upon his lips, but he curbed them, inwardly determining to have his revenge when the opportunity should arise.

He curbed his desperate impatience, set his teeth, and whirled the noose about his head in a widening circle.